December 2007

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| CAD and Diabetes |
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Prediction of coronary artery disease in patients with diabetes and albuminuria |
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by Elisa T. Lee, PhD1 Barbara V. Howard, PhD2 Wenyu Wang, PhD1 Thomas K. Welty, MD3 James M. Galloway, MD4 Lyle G. Best, MD3 Richard R. Fabsitz, PhD5 Ying Zhang, MD, PhD1 Jeunliang Yeh, PhD1 Richard B. Devereux, MD6 |
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1Center for American Indian Health Research, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; 2MedStar Research Institute,Washington, DC; 3Missouri Breaks Industries Research, Inc., Timber Lake, South Dakota; 4University of Arizona, Tucson; 5Epidemiology and Biometry Program, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland; 6Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York. |
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Commentary |
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The time has come for ethnicity-specific CV risk calculators |
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by Kathleen L. Wyne, MD, PhD |
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Hyperglycemia and platelet function in diabetic patients: relevance to acute myocardial ischemia and infarction |
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by John D. Horowitz, MBBS, PhD, FRACP Yuliy Y. Chirkov, PhD |
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From the Cardiology Unit, Basil Hetzel Research Institute, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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Case Report |
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Rapid correction of hyperglycemia in a diabetic patient with coronary stenosis |
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Commentary |
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Significance of hyperglycemia and platelet function in diabetic patients |
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by Alan G.Wasserman, MD |
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| Hypertension |
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Obesity-related hypertension |
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by Susann Patschan, MD Jόrgen Scholze, MD |
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From New York Medical College, Renal Research,Valhalla, New York; and Charitι Berlin, Department of Medicine, Outpatient Clinic, Berlin, Germany. |
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Case Report |
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Improvement of hypertension and diabetes in an obese woman taking sibutramine |
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Commentary |
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Treatment of hypertension in patients taking sibutramine |
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by Leslie Cho, MD |
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| CAD and Imaging |
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Prognostic value of multislice computed tomography coronary angiography |
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by Joanne D. Schuijf, MSc1 Gabija P. Pundziute, MD2 Jeroen J. Bax, PhD1 |
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From the 1Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; and the 2Department of Cardiology, Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania. |
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Case Report |
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Two patients with normal and abnormal coronary arteries |
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Commentary |
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Multislice computed tomography coronary angiography: a study in search of a clinical niche |
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by Richard E. Stewart, MD |
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